Feisty will not shutdown, reboots instead

[Anders Häggström]

2007/6/2, Carl Drud <carl.drud at myrealbox.com>:
> I am new to Linux/Ubuntu and everything so far has been running
> smoothly.
>
> However in the last couple of weeks I have experienced that sometimes,
> whenever I want to shutdown, it reboots. At first I thought I just hit
> the reboot button.
>
> Yesterday I tried from a console:
>
> $ shutdown -P now
>
> It still rebooted.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Carl
>

You copuld try this as root (or put "sudo" in front of the command):
# shutdown -h now

-P didn't work for me by default but the acion of -h is specified in
/etc/ somewhere and defaults to turn power off. I don't remember where
just yet.

// Anders